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Full loom of the same cable brand vs mixing and matching.

Some say, for synergy sake, you should use the same brand of cabling throughout your entire audio system (a full loom).  However, as an audiophile for over 25 years, I've never adhered to that philosophy.  As a matter of fact, I currently use three different brands of cables in my audio system with excellent results.  Do you stay faithful to one brand of cables in your audio system, or do you mix and match, as I do, and why?  

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ghdprentice
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it will likely depend on your system.
 

For most of my 50 years pursuing the high end I was forced to choose the very best components and therefore needed to choose cable and interconnect specifically for each connection. But over time a few companies began offering best of class / sound family components for DAC, Phono Stage, preamp, and amp. In this case it is preferable to ID the ideal cable / interconnect and use all the same. So, for me all my components are Audio Research and they are highly complemented with Transparent wires. So that is what I use except for the power amplifier power cord, where I use Audio Quest Hurricane… a great cord… but at the time I did not want to spend $6.5 K on the Transparent Opus and the Hurricane was better than the Transparent Reference level.

 

So, do you have a mixed brand system or single brand? 

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